find follow info. by google: H4 volunteer

An H1B can work in the job authorized. An H4 cannot work. Doing
anything actively with the intent to make money is not permitted. You
could buy a house as a passive investment and sell it years later, rent
it out in the meantime through a management company. But as soon as the
H1B's or H4's involvement becomes active it crosses the line. Same with
stock trading. As long as it's intended as passive investment it's OK,
but as soon as it becomes a "means to earn money to live on", it crosses
the line.

Most dependent statuses simply cannot do anything but be a dependent.
You can't even volunteer (i.e. work for nothing) unless the work you're
doing is NORMALLY unpaid and the organisation you're doing it for has no
one paid do do the work, and no other organisation in the area your in
normally pays people to do the work. For example, in some places,
church secretaries are normally unpaid, and as long as a church has
never paid anyone to be a secretary, then it's permissible to volunteer,
but if you're in an area where the norm is to pay church secretaries
(even if this one has never paid its secretaries) you can't volunteer
for that either!

This is so tricky a situation ... take the case where a non-immigrant
neighbour helped a disabled neighbour, going up on the roof with a
ladder to get a ball down. Someone reported the activity to the INS
claiming that the disabled person should have hired a handyman service
and apparently it was upheld by the INS! Crazy.

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